Below is live coverage of the Increasing Conversions Through Better Usability from the SMX East 2009 conference.
This coverage is provided by Brian Ussery - Beu Blog.
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| Increasing Conversions Through Better Usability | (10/05/2009) |
| 3:45 | Brian Ussery: Greetings from SMX East we'll be starting in just a few moments. |
| 3:46 | Brian Ussery: Increasing Conversions Through Better Usability Increasing Conversions Through Better Usability – Are you missing out on sales because of poor usability? This session looks at how improving your site visitors’ experience can increase conversions. Moderator: Gordon Hotchkiss, President and CEO, Enquiro Speakers: Scott Brinker, President & CTO, ion interactive, inc. James Fenelon, Interactive Product Director, nFusion Kimberly Krause Berg, Usability and SEO Consultant, UsabilityEffect.com/Cre8pc.com Alissa Ruehl, Manager of Website Effectiveness Consulting, Apogee Search |
| 3:48 | Brian Ussery: Up first is James from nFusion |
| 3:49 | Brian Ussery: Usability testing provides measurement of ease of use and user success. Helps explain how test subjects respond. |
| 3:50 | Brian Ussery: Usability is about helping site visitors via user centered design |
| 3:50 | Brian Ussery: Where business visitor goals overlap is the point of interest. |
| 3:51 | Brian Ussery: Basic techniques 1 heuristic review |
| 3:52 | Brian Ussery: Heuristic testing can include competitive reviews. |
| 3:53 | Brian Ussery: Basic technique 2 is information architecture |
| 3:53 | Brian Ussery: IA techniques focus on logic. |
| 3:53 | Brian Ussery: Basic technique 3 card sorting |
| 3:54 | Brian Ussery: Basic technique 4 prototype testing |
| 3:55 | Brian Ussery: James seems to like paper prototypes best and I see why, simple. |
| 3:56 | Brian Ussery: When do you prototype? early |
| 3:56 | Brian Ussery: Usability for optimization isn't a one time event. |
| 3:58 | Brian Ussery: Up next Alissa |
| 3:59 | Brian Ussery: Anyone who does testing knows the answer isn't always what you might think in advance. |
| 3:59 | Brian Ussery: Do you have to understand your problems before you can fix them? YES |
| 4:00 | Brian Ussery: Establish goals - define goals |
| 4:01 | Brian Ussery: Optimize to all of your Goals |
| 4:05 | Brian Ussery: Tactics to fix obvious issues: usability testing, focus groups..... |
| 4:09 | Brian Ussery: Lead Generation Issues - What do people do - fill out forms - browse - read - leave Lead bait (free resources) |
| 4:09 | Brian Ussery: The more complex your product or service the more users tend to browse... |
| 4:10 | Brian Ussery: Conversion Strategy - dig deep for end goals - analytics - tailor solutions - figure out what is low hanging fruit and fix it first |
| 4:33 | Brian Ussery: How can I improve my conversion rate? It depends.... |
| 4:33 | Brian Ussery: Don't focus on forms focus on leads! - Human error - Qualified leads - Sales |
| 4:33 | Brian Ussery: Up next Kimberly Krause Berg! |
| 4:33 | Brian Ussery: Step 2 What is your traffic doing? - start by looking at your site purchase process - look for shopping cart issues - try product purchase - do landing pages (entry) seem correct? Where do visitors go when the visit your site? |
| 4:40 | Brian Ussery: The man the boy and the donkey. Donkey is the problem because so few live online. 4 areas of focus: -landing page -ad copy - intent - keyword Landing page seems to be most problematic. Message Match is the heart of usability. Message Match is where all things tend to break… Ideal situation: Customer says he/she finds what he/she wants but that isn't always the case. Example 1 Overland storage website which is highly targeted and conversions grow thanks to 100s of landing pages. Example 2 American Greetings which increase conversions by 30% |
| 4:44 | Brian Ussery: - adopt cms for landing pages - create templates Test Driven Marketing: Controlled experiments to discover what people really want. What is the real story? |
| 4:47 | Brian Ussery: Give people what they want, that is the secret when it comes to landing pages. |
| 4:48 | Brian Ussery: Conncection issues, now answering quesitons from Twitter |
| 4:51 | Brian Ussery: Question: What do you do for testing for sites with little traffic? Alissa: 90% with 25 conversions, so it can be done... Kim: Keyword testing from search.... Gord: Any usability testing is better than no testing |
| 4:52 | Brian Ussery: Gord: stress on usability testing in context to your site. |
| 4:55 | Brian Ussery: Thanks for joining today! :) |
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